Hi all,
As the title suggests, when I hit play/spacebar, the video starts exactly 1 second ahead of where the playhead is positioned. This happens consistently. Am enjoying the programme otherwise, would be really nice to hear from people regarding this.
If needed, I can capture video from my screen to show this behaviour.
Thank you in advance.
Ed
Yes. I have noticed it as well. When a project is loaded. This has been happening in the current version of Shotcut and I believe in the previous version. It’s not a big deal.
Press home and the playhead goes back to zero.
Hello from Washington DC. This is happening to me too on an HP i5 3.3GHz box (Ver 18.03.06, Win 7 Pro 32-bit). I can return the playhead back to zero, but it starts from the 1-sec mark each time.
If I move the media file ahead to the 1-sec mark (or beyond), it will play fine. But that’s kinda cumbersome.
Thanks for the cool software.
Hi again … an additional observation: if I set the playhead >>anywhere<< it has the same behavior. No matter where I am in the timeline, the playhead jumps ahead about 1 sec.
Hi Alan,
Still in the same boat as you. Completely confused by this not being the no. 1 issue - a quirk that compromises the whole experience, no adequate responses yet. ‘Press the home button’ - where is that, a why do I need to do that?
On your keyboard. That’s why you were instructed to ‘press’ it and not ‘click’ it 
Please do so, it might help.
Hi Steve, thanks for the quick response. I tried pressing home on my mac keyboard and it reverts the playhead to 0:00:00. This isn’t the desired result, the goal is to have the playhead anywhere and have it set off from where it is positioned on the screen. Video to come 
Thanks for your help so far.
I understand that, I was just letting you know where the HOME button [key - actually] was.
Oh and btw, this 1 second skip never happens here. So it’s something unique to some computers.
Possible something like location and unit delimiter settings.
Here’s a vid of me trying to show the issue: https://we.tl/HRlWGu344X
It’s difficult to discern the issue watching the clip, you’ll have to trust my word.
Any recommendations? Thank you.
@AuntAvis I misunderstood your original post.
When I open a project the play head is sometimes not at 00:00:00:00. Pressing HOME sets the play head to zero.
Watched your video. I have not experienced that issue.
No, that doesn’t happen here either.
What’s the frame rate of the source and does your video mode match? (Settings>Video mode)
Steve, Alan in DC here … my own 1-sec skip happens when there is only an audio file loaded into the timeline. It can be either an MP3 (constant rate), or a 44.1 kHz WAV file.
Is there something I should try with format conversion or sample rate conversion that may prove helpful?